The phrase "affected by the programme" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe individuals, groups, or entities that experience changes or impacts due to a specific programme or initiative.
Example: "The local community was significantly affected by the programme aimed at improving public health."
Alternatives: "impacted by the programme" or "influenced by the programme."
Those who signed the petition left messages of support for the people affected by the programme.
One of the Niesr report's authors, Jonathan Portes, told Channel 4's Dispatches programme: "The only way you can measure whether a programme has had actually any impact is to compare whether the people affected by the programme do better or worse than people who weren't affected by the programme, and we have that evidence.
Having spoken to more than 80 experts and individuals affected by the programme, my research found that Prevent was creating a climate of fear and a chilling effect on free expression.
The job-seeker rate is affected by the programme intensity.
This is especially the case because aid is one of the very few areas of government expenditure which is not affected by the programme cuts.
Ultimately, the view was that children and families could be affected by the programme both directly, via services encountered, and indirectly, via community changes that derived from the programme (e.g., reductions in crime, feelings of cohesion, changed 'local norms' about parenting).
Staff working in the Peninsula College of medicine and dentistry and those employed by the university's network of partner colleges will not be affected by the redundancy programme.
Schools across the country are likely to be affected by the rolling programme of walkouts by members of the the National Union of Teachers and the NASUWT, along with a national strike before Christmas.
Reliability in our study also could have been affected by the specific training programme we gave to the students.
1.30pm BST Patino says all the citizens in the world have been affected by the US surveillance programmes revealed by Snowden.
The prospective new generation of council flat homeowners be warned: housing minister Grant Shapps told Dispatches that only a "tiny, tiny minority" of leaseholders were affected by the issues raised in the programme.
